4D ART

[insearchofmoremeaning]

Artist Statement 4: “Static”

This piece was performed as part of the “MSU Denver Dance Works with DTAPP’s Metamorphosis” show on April 30th and May 1st. While I wait for the final cut of the video from the videographer to share with y’all, I’m uploading the rehearsal footage. I’ve edited the hue of the video to mimic the lighting we had in the live performance piece.

Hannah Slate and I started creating this piece over a year ago with the intention of

crafting a live performance piece together. Overtime, this work became about exploring the concept of anxiety.

When anxiety strikes, how do we manage? Do we shut down? Do we go into overdrive to ease our anxious thoughts? How do we handle anxiety as individuals? How can we collectively handle anxiety as interconnected beings?

[peytonconner]

I enjoyed watching this, coming from someone who can’t dance I love watching people perform through movement! The red light definitely added to the piece!!

[rxthxl]

Art Project 4: One Minute Performance

MOTION

For this project, I decided to focus on studying time and motion. I found the readings of the last module really interesting, so I wanted to continue putting them into practice. For my performance, I wanted to do something simple but at the same time meaningful. For me, recording myself while doing homework in the park symbolizes a criticism of the time spent on things that are sometimes not so important. Simultaneously, I wanted my audience to watch how the world goes while I focused for hours on things that may not be as important. While doing homework, I could hear families passing by and enjoying quality time with their loved ones. It made me feel a bit nostalgic. Watching the multiple recorded videos allowed me to see the grass, trees, and clouds, moving as time passed.

At first, I wondered if recording myself doing homework could be considered a performance; however, after reflecting on it, I persisted with my initial idea because there are many thoughts and issues to analyze behind this short video. Finally, I concluded that this is what performance is about, pushing the limits to change the perception of what can be considered art.

[peytonconner]

I love how simple yet complex this video is. I love how you can see time pass as you are some what stationary, the scenery makes me want to have a picnic or just lay in the damn grass for once!! It makes me relaxed and excites me for summer!!

[peytonconner]

Project 4: One minute performance

The Thread to the Hollowed Humans

For this assignment, I wanted to show the finalizing part of the installment of my 3D project. This piece expresses my worlds of dissociation. Living with ADHD and dyslexia assists the unlimited potential behind the dissociation worlds or anxiety/depression lows I've cultivated through my twenty-year dwelling. Dissociation has many positive and negative connotations that are complex and challenging to explain to another being that has not experienced this other world. This work expresses the questions I had during my dissociation highs and lows that always stretched back to the common thread of hands. Specifically my hands.

[peytonconner]

Technical exercise 4: Serras Verb list

TO LIGHT, TO ESCAPE, TO ENGULF,

to obstruct, to dissociate , to abuse, to dilute, to hinder, to comfort, to close, to soothe, to smoke, to shut, to escape, to float, to rise, to burn, to dream, to encourage, to imagine

Song- Tadow (feat. FKJ) by Masego

[peytonconner]

Overview of Performance Art and Readings 4

The reading Roselee Goldberg Performance: A Hidden Story talks about Roselee's live art performance from 1909 to 1979. When she performed throughout the decades, she got to experience the different ideals of Dadaists, Futurists, Constructivists, and the Surrealists. From these groups of artists to the viewers each individual can be a part of performance art which brings more people willing to watch something new. This art form can be serious or super funny, but anything can go wrong for the artist in an instant and I think it's this aspect that makes performance art so enchanting. I enjoyed reading about the different performance waves and what got each group of artists to try out this new art form. In the reading, The Other History of Intercultural Performance the author talks about Franz Kafka's story and the perspective it brings to the intercultural performance. Due to exhibitionism cultures lost their history and practices which this reading brings back with the intercultural performances documented and explained further in detail so the reader can fully understand the culture/history behind the performance.  The Gold cage performance I thought was ironic and disturbing that these Europeans could have just forgotten the Amerindian. I appreciate the artist's goal of using this type of performance to force the contradictions to be opened up. I like learning more about intercultural performance because I have seen some done but I have never read more about the history behind the topic.

[ellianar]

Fiona's Breakdowns (Shameless)

4D 1 Minute Supercut ProjectWorks Cited:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJipbGT8zUkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjqpVmCLtQ

Project 3: 1 Minute Supercut “Fiona’s Breakdowns”

When it comes to things like television and movies I hardly find myself getting wrapped up in the emotions being portrayed by the characters. I may feel stress because of unresolved conflicts or the excitement of being on the edge of my seat at the climax of a storyline, but truly feeling the struggle and desperation of a character is not a feeling I’m familiar with.

When it comes to Shameless, however, the feelings and scenarios portrayed by Fiona Gallagher are all too real to me, and is one of the few characters that I cry with. Her struggle to keep everything together while she’s actively falling apart is a feeling that cuts deep for me and for many others, so for this project I wanted to display just some of the moments I really resonated with her in this way. Her strength and perseverance despite all the odds stacked against her (for those unfamiliar, raising all 5 of her siblings because of her absent, mentally ill, and addicted parents) are traits that inspire me, even if the story is fictional.

[peytonconner]

Completely agree with your statement!! Fiona is one of the main reasons I watch the show because of how good she can show these deep intense emotions.  I liked watching your video because it reminded me of these scenes and the emotion and confusion, I always felt watching Shameless. 

[eliasrex]

Three houses but just the single combat cinematics

[eliasrex]

This game is a former and now resurfacing special interest of mine, and as a story based around combat, its pre-rendered cutscenes accordingly feature many a sword clash. This gives me the opportunity to reflect on combat as a whole - it is an obvious atrocity in real life, especially with the immediate lethality of modern weaponry, but it has many uses as a storytelling tool. In this video, all named characters shown (with one exception) are portrayed sympathetically at least at some point. The battles shown fulfill different purposes - avenging a lost mother, following the orders of an unquestioned superior, greeting a former friend who has become an enemy, greeting an old mentor with a skill demonstration, ending the rampage of an undead warlord - each advancing the story forward. I wanted this short montage to demonstrate both the versatility and the effectiveness of the storytelling tool, not to mention an animation style and work that I find compelling. I debated over whether to add music to mask the disparate soundtracks between each scene, but ultimately decided that would take away the crucial work done by the game’s sound designers - each strike or clash of a blade has a weight to it that the sound effects are crucial in, and the variation in background music further reflects the variation in moods and meanings behind each clip. (I originally also included duels from the two released trailers for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, but they were cut for cohesiveness and time. However, the end of the Three Hopes announcement trailer and the start of the “Mysterious Mercenary” trailer make excellent parallels and I would highly recommend comparing them as a demonstration of circular storytelling.)

[peytonconner]

This video is super intense!! And I really enjoy how much detail is present and the smooth transitions between clips!!

[peytonconner]

Art Project 3: One Minute Supercut

Title~ some•day

I've recently visited the CVA 2022 BFA spring student exposition to expose myself to other artists' work and gain confidence/inspiration for my submission for the fall applicants' work. As an artist, I constantly compare myself to others' work and how I can improve myself along the way. I just transferred to Metro this semester because I want to pursue something that makes me and others feel passionate about the work I can create. Getting accepted to the BFA program is a big step forward in developing your character and work as an artist. So that's why for this project I chose different clips of multiple students' work from the spring exhibition to put into one coherent viewing clip that has a calming vibe. I knew the beginning and end of the video had to be connected somehow and thought that some trippy colors could add to the viewing experience. I took the artistic liberty to rename each clip by the emotions or thoughts that occurred when critiquing their work. I included two different quotes or affirmations as an introduction and end of the video. These sayings I use daily to help ease my anxiety and allow myself to remember we are all just cells floating on a rock in the middle of a galaxy.

Song~ The Weekend by SZA and Calvin Harris

[peytonconner]

Technical Exercise 3 : Music Video

Song: You Make my Dreams(Come True) by Daryl Hall and John Oats

Videos and pictures are from a hectic trip to Ecuador and The Galápagos Islands . It was my first trip outta the county and I didn’t know who was on the trip until I showed up to the airport. One of the most life changing experiences for myself and expanding my knowledge of how other cultures live. Weird example but you can’t flush toilet paper there (pipes are too small) and only drink filtered bottled water.

[peytonconner]

ocean without a shore by bill viola (video)

[peytonconner]

Dynamic Paintings Feature the Energy of Fencers in Motion By Katie Hosmer on November 2, 2014

Repurposed - Clock Into Kinetic Wall ArtBy Tool Using Animal in Circuits

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Karina Llergo Salto ~ Dance through the color of LifeBy Zana Bihiku Tutt'Art

[peytonconner]

Reading Response #3

Time and Motion:

Throughout the reading about time and motion, I enjoyed learning about all the different forms these two concepts can take place. I did not know about the different art forms and the intentional restraints artists put on themselves while using these techniques. Specifically, the actual time technique where so many things can go wrong because they are subjected to the artist's choice of time or other intentional problems. But in a way, the risk is what makes actual time artwork so appealing to me and viewers. The recorded time, piece Creation by Duane Michals also stuck out to me because of how simple yet complex it seems. The reading gives me a different understanding of the word motion and its complex uses in art. The implied motion was one of my favorite types because of how much I see this kind of motion in hypnotic images. Robert Capa's work Omaha Beach really captures the essence of World WarTwo by using motion to depict the chaos and death that occurred on this beach. The photo being blurred was unintentional which makes the picture stand out more due to the battle causing the motion making the photo seem like it is occurring at this moment.

Projection: Vanishing and Becoming:

In this reading, I had no prior thoughts about projection coming before drawing but by understanding Buddhist and Greek reasoning, and knowing the whole reflection is considered not just the outline. That is the main reason I now believe that projection occurred first and the explanation about hand shadows and playing with flashlights. Fire creates shadows and shadows are forms of artwork in their own way. Thus, I now believe projection happened first. Then the reading dives deeper into the different forms of projection and the three origin types. I love how projection was then described to have a way to construct our concept of humanity. The endless possibilities that come from projections of shadows create Plato's interesting take "that the scene on a wall of a cave might be mistaken for reality". The Kingdom of shadows is talked about briefly and the part in which the area is soundless I find to be the most intriguing because the world would seem more like a simulation if grey and noiseless. It was interesting to read about all these notable people I've read about before but had no idea about these stories and facts regarding projection. 

[roansblogg]

Project 2: The Loop

My series of GIFs center around a shocking or climactic moment in movies or television, a moment of intense emotion that is often followed by tragedy or conflict. I remember watching these moments and events for the first time and all of them got some sort of reaction out of me, whether it be dying of laughter, scooting forward to the edge of my seat or making a face of pure disgust. My thought process told me the best way to try and get reposted was to make people relate in a genuine way, and I hope that others also relate to these wild moments and remember how they felt after consuming them for the first time. 

[peytonconner]

Absolutely love this idea and totally agree with you that these moments in each scene made a viewer feel a certain way! I especially love the Breaking Bad GIF because I just started rewatching it and this is one of my favorite scenes because I find it funny.

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[peytonconner]

I LOVE HOW CUTE HE IS! He looks like a happy potato!

[peytonconner]

Art Project 2: The Loop

Artist Statement:

For this project, I messed around with a night and day concept that turned into more of a before and after. Messing with repetition of the same photos then changing only the indirect temperature of the colors caused this strobe light effect on the .gifs. The nature images ended up taking over most of my .gif collection of ten rather than continuing on with trippy bedrooms or sunset .gifs I found the nature images to be more appealing. In the end, I enjoyed messing with different colors to achieve an interesting outcome.

[peytonconner]

Technical Exercise 2: mini cinema

.gif title-- PURPLErainingCITY

[peytonconner]

.gif # 10

This is what Id imagine the blue part of a flame would look like if you were engulfed in it.